Belarus crisis’ after-effect: Lida residents fighting for expired food in supermarket trash


Instagram user yahor_diesel (Yahor Smarchkou) posted a video of people trying to pull out food products out of the trash can of Euroopt supermarket in the Belarusian town of Lida.

Shortly before, a Euroopt employee threw rotten vegetables away and said they were ‘disgusting’.

“The people are poor and hungry… Do you want to show that there are such people in our country? Do not hesitate. It looks terrible, but so it goes – the country is poor and hungry, ” a woman told the blogger.

“How can one get a job and survive?” a man wondered.

The author of the video asked whether the man would work if there were jobs in the town.

“Of course, with great pleasure. I finished school with honors, I graduated from college with honors, and now I cannot find a job!” he answered.

On May 1, Belarusian Labour Minister Iryna Kastsevich said that more than 85,000 people had been employed across the country. But the top official failed to specify what jobs the newly-employed got and how much they would earn.


In February-March, there has been an eruption of protesting the so-called ‘parasite’ law in Belarus. Hundreds of Belarusians were detained, fined, jailed after recent non-parasite marches. Most of them were accused of violating the order of holding mass events and disobedience to police officers’ demands. It should be noted that plainclothes policemen who refuse to show their IDs a or introduce themselves often beat people and prevented journalists from performing their professional duties.

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